One especially urgent matter should still get done this year: making limos safer.

After years of two-party rule and stagnation on an array of progressive issues, New York voters in 2018 decided to see what might happen if they handed control of state government firmly to Democrats. In the legislative session that ended last week, they found out.

In many ways, lawmakers did not squander the opportunity. And while there is still plenty the Legislature could and should do, it's worth noting what they did get done.

Democrats used their power to expand voting rights — including allowing early voting and pre-registration for teenagers, consolidating state and federal primaries into one in June, and setting in motion a referendum on a constitutional amendment to allow no-excuse absentee ballots. They closed the notorious "LLC loophole" though which wealthy interests got around the state's limits on campaign contributions by funneling them through limited liability companies. They created a commission to devise a system of public campaign financing.

At no small political risk, they did the right thing and authorized driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. They expanded rights that farmworkers have been denied for the better part of a century. They decriminalized marijuana and reformed bail laws, moves that could help address racially disproportionate law enforcement.

And they passed landmark climate change legislation to dramatically reduce the state's carbon emissions over the next 30 years.

The list of what they didn't do, though, includes some significant items. One, especially, resonates for this region and is urgent: fixing laws that govern the limousine business.

Limo safety has come under intense scrutiny since last October's deadly crash in Schoharie that claimed 20 lives, including 17 passengers, the driver and two bystanders in a parking lot. The massive limo involved in the crash, owned by Prestige Limousine of Wilton, had repeatedly failed inspections yet remained on the road.

The Assembly in particular seemed hesitant to pass bills that the industry most objected to — and which might have done the most to make the public safer, including mandatory drug and alcohol testing of drivers and impounding limos with safety problems. The two chambers could not reconcile similar bills to crack down on these huge vehicles making U-turns — a factor in a 2015 crash on Long Island in which four young women were killed.

Certainly, the state Transportation and Motor Vehicles departments and police agencies should do everything in their power to ensure that the rules on these vehicles are followed. But they can only do so much without additional legal authority.

This is not some esoteric issue that the Legislature has the luxury of debating for even another year, not with limousines on the roads right now. Lawmakers — who, after all, just got a $30,500 raise — should come back to Albany as soon as the differences over these bills can be worked out and get this done.